Afternoon Interlude: Pick the Islanders 10,000th Goal
by Dominik on Feb 7, 2012 4:05 PM EST
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Regulars here typically pick the First Islanders Goal for each game (you can pick tonight's in this FIG thread). As Eric Hornick has been tracking all season -- and well since the Reagan administration, when you think about it -- the Islanders are now four goals shy of their 10,000th in franchise history.
Four is a tall order for tonight, but you never know. So we better get this up: Leave your pick for who will score the 10,000th goal. It could be tonight (hopefully), it could be a week from now (hopefully not).
So in comments, leave your pick for the scorer and who assists on the goal. We'll refer to this post until it happens ... whenever it happens. If you also select the time and the game, the person closest to the right pick overall will receive one free indulgence, no questions asked.
Also for distraction:
Michael Fornabaio in his Bridgeport chat today, on Ty Wishart: "The guy's getting every-situation minutes here. It's not like they've buried him because they called a couple of their high draft picks up for emergency recalls. ... He's been a part of the leadership here."
And also from Hornick: With Aaron Ness making his debut, it's time for another look at that bountiful 2008 draft.
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Tavares (MacDonald, Okposo) 7:17 vs MON 2/9/12
Hopefully I’ll get to see this happen.
by dunnowhat2type on Feb 7, 2012 5:49 PM EST up reply actions
Tavares (Moulson, Okposo) 38:00
We are all Islanders, even if we’re from Jersey!
by Russel Ginart on Feb 7, 2012 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
Tavares (Moulson, Streit) 9:19 vs LAK 2/11/2012
He shoots...he scoororreessss....Go Islanders!!!!!
Tavares (Streit, Okposo) 19:21 vs LA 2/11/12
Is it too late for me to squeak in?
"Seriously that's the last time you guys f#@%ing won?" -RSH (about beating the Penguins in '93)
Moulson (Tavares, Okposo) 22:00 vs. Montreal 2/9/12
Comic Book Writer by day; Islanders fanatic by Gameday
Moulson (Tavares, Okposo) 6:41 v. LA 2/11/12
"The reader of this sentence exists only while reading me."
by North Dakota Red Eagle on Feb 7, 2012 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
Moulson (Tavares) 5:00 vs. Montreal (2/9/12)
Contributor for Lighthouse Hockey. Definitely neither the Sniper nor the Enforcer.
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Feb 7, 2012 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
Moulson(Taveras,Striet) 9:00 vs LAK 2/11
vs his brother in-law
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
by Rickfansince76 on Feb 8, 2012 11:57 PM EST up reply actions
Tavares (Moulson, Okposo) 17:32 3rd Period tonight
Why yes, I do have a man crush on Bailey and Martin, and no, I don't care what you think about it
Tavares (Okposo, Streit) 19:20
I hereby boldly call upon a blowout this fine evening in Philadelphia (just hope we’re the ones scoring those goals).
by sayvillelax94 on Feb 7, 2012 4:41 PM EST up reply actions
I predict a blowout, they give me a 1-0 win in the shootout
Very interesting…
by sayvillelax94 on Feb 7, 2012 10:03 PM EST up reply actions
Bailey (Martin, Streit), 10:00 3rd, tonight vs. Philly
I just hope it’s A. soon and B. someone good. No offence to Mike Watt.
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent. On Twitter: @Dan_of_Science
by PGI on Feb 7, 2012 4:17 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Nielsen (Parenteau, Ness) 2:55 OT tonight
It ought to be Tavares, could be someone like Parenteau, but will probably be someone obscure to history like Tim Wallace.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
JT (Streit) ENG 19:44 of the 3rd
boo
yah!
These comments crawl up from the depths of the deepest Chasm of Saar
Streit (Tavares) 3:20 in OT tonite
The way this is going the Captain of the next Cup contending Islanders team is still in grade school......RESULTS DO MATTER..
Tavares (Moulson / PA) PP 10:00 1st, next game
Amateurs practice til they get it right. Professionals practice til they can't get it wrong.
Pandolfo (Neiderreiter, Ness)
Hahahah.
Now I’m sad.
Neil Smith @bigdealneil94 @KeithLHHockey @craigjbutton hey keith GFY
Website:Lighthouse HockeyTwitter: @KeithLHHockey
by Keith Quinn on Feb 7, 2012 4:45 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Okposo (JT) 11:20
More likely vs. Montreal than tonight!
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
Okposo (Tavares) 15:43 vs. LA Kings on Sat. 2/11
by barry_hal_oliver_24 on Feb 7, 2012 9:49 PM EST up reply actions
Okposo (Tavares, Moulson) 49:21 vs LA on Sat. 2/11
Wanted to pick the cap mule, but figured that would be my one free indulgence and didn’t want to waste it!
Positive Waves! Indianapolis Racers (1974-1978)
Grabner (Nielsen) 14:40 of 3rd Period
vs. the Habs
"Redemption? Sure. But in the end, he's just another dead rat in a garbage pail behind a Chinese restaurant."
Martin (Bailey, Streit) 42:00 tonight
"If you have what you say you have, I’ll make you rich. If you don’t, I’ll make you into shoes" Jim Moriarty 1/1/2012
Martin (Bailey, Rakhshani) 8:13 2/11 - LA
They beat Montreal, 3-1, then Matty Martin scores the franchise’s 10,000th!
Tavares(Nielsen, Donovan) 7:11 PP
It’s too bad Hamonic won’t be a part of it. If Rolston scores it hopefully somebody in my house hides all my bullets…
“I don’t know why he shot himself… the Islanders just took a 4-3 lead… I thought he would have been excited… excuse me officer, is that a Rolex…boy you make that uniform look good.”
-MRSinVA
I believe in ELI! Go Blue!
@JPinVA
Reese (Parenteau) EN 59:34
…and Butchy and Howie will feign surpise concerning the unselfish play by Parenteau.
Westfall (Drouin, Marshall) @ 37:29
Ooops, that was the first goal. (O.K., I made up the assists).
Thou shalt not recognize false enemies, they are the Rangers, you shall have no other enemies before them.
AND "Thank you Dale Tallon"
by since70too on Feb 7, 2012 6:05 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Tavares (Nielsen, Parenteau) @ 15:30 on the PP
I’ll be surprised if I get the time right, more surprised if I get the assists right, but I won’t be shocked if it’s on the PP.
Niederreiter (Streit, Weber turnover) 47:53 vs MTL
by Kaonashi on Feb 8, 2012 4:56 PM EST via Android app reply actions
I don't think so, but I haven't checked.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
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The victory justified the faith in coach Al Arbour who guided them from their second season to their first Stanley Cup seven seasons later. The Islanders would not be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, but they would be the only one capable of a dynasty.
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May 21, 1981: This time it was much easier. After falling to "only" 91 points in the 1979-80 season, the Islanders returned to their division title tradition, piling up 110 points -- a whole 13 points over second-place Philadelphia.
Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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May 16, 1982: Another year, another landslide title. The Islanders won the Patrick Division by a whopping 26 points over the second-place Rangers, and were seven points clear of their nearest competition for the President's Trophy, the still-not-quite-ripe Edmonton Oilers.
A first-round scare against the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in the Isles' favor thanks to John Tonelli's heroics, and a true dynasty was on its way: Past the Rangers in six games, then an eight-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks to run away with the Stanley Cup.
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May 17, 1983: Not so fast, whipper-snappers. The Edmonton Oilers' steadily rising challenge for league supremacy took them all the way to the finals for the first time, where the New York Islanders summarily dispatched them in a four-game sweep. For the Islanders, the Dynasty was secured. For the Oilers, it was a powerful lesson in where talent ends and the demands of playoff hockey begin.
Four years, four Cups, 16 consecutive playoff series wins (a record that would grow to 19 until the rematch with the Oilers the following year). Mike Bossy scored 60 goals yet again, and Wayne Gretzky became acquainted with Billy Smith's crease.
